![]() ![]() ![]() "We'd never build a modern submarine that looked like _that_." ![]() "This looks more like the _Monitor_ or the _Merrimac_ from the Civil War," he said. "We don't build submarines that look like that." He admitted that our test results were "interesting" but added, "Your design would probably cost us two or three knots in speed." I countered, "But why care about losing three knots, when you are invisible to your enemy?" He frowned at my drawing and backhanded my concept. > That submarine captain epitomized the hidebound Navy at its worst. Here's a telling excerpt from the submarine adventure: First, one with a proposal for a design of a stealth submarine, and then second, another example of an actual prototype of a stealth ship that underwent a year of testing (in which it performed admirably) before being rejected. In Ben Rich's book, he gives a couple of examples. ![]()
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